State House has announced that the Interior Secretary Joseph Nkaissery died overnight after being rushed to hospital. He was 67 years old.

Mr Nkaissery was rushed to Karen Hospital after apparently collapsing at home but died at 4am this morning. The cause of his death is as yet not known.

His death comes exactly one month before Kenya’s elections in which Joseph Nkaissery was to play a key role in organising security.